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USB not supporting w10
| >install linux
| same problem here
| USB 2.0
| >>396647
I'm pretty sure windos 10 has USB drivers installed by default. I bet your problem is the filesystem on your flash drive. I think Win10 still only supports ntfs and (ex-)fat. Switch to a unixoid distro or ask microsoft to make their system more compatible to open standards.
Hint: exfat is actually the ONLY filesystem supported by Linux, Mac and Windows that also is able to store files >3,6GiB.
MacOS also sucks. Like windos still no XFS, EXT4, JFFS2 or YAFFS2 support, lol.
| Don't use proprietary operating systems such as Windows or macOS. That will almost certainly solve the problem.
| >>396647
Make sure you're connected to the Internet when you connect that USB drive. Windows usually automatically downloads drivers for devices it doesn't have drivers for already. Otherwise, check in the system tray for any notifications with errors regarding your USB drive.
Also can you confirm that your USB drive works with other OSes?
| >>397777
Do you want to tell us, that windows 10 degenerated to a level on which win98 was? Because that was the last Windows I know which didn't ship USB-Drivers by default.
| So what do people think of using ntfs-3g on Mac/Linux
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| >>399312 yeah that's the problem I have I use Windows osx and Linux at my house so I just need something all of them can read and don't want to use exfat on a large drive, anything better I could be using? Someone make a btrfs driver for Windows yet :p
| >>399362
Use NFTS then.
It's not like it doesn't work well under Linux, it's just that there are better options.
| >>399365 aww I was kinda hoping I could use ext4 or something and you knew of a good windows driver and Mac driver, why can't companies just agree on a external drive standard that isn't bad like exfat (is there an ext4 driver in brew I haven't checked yet?)
| I've personally had a good amount of issues with ntfs-3g on Mac, for some reason it likes to die when writing larger files, same with the native driver mounted as rw
| >>399541
Build a linux-based fileserver, format your storage with ext4 and share it locally via samba/smb. Mount it under windos as "network-drive" and under linux and mac with cifs/fuse.
Later you could optinally think about making it accecible via internet by configuring a vpn.
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| So what happens if a usb can't support the operating system which you are using? My pc won't read the files which are in that usb? I won't be able to use it until i change my os?